CURRENT CHALLENGES WITH DIGITAL PLATFORMS
The business landscape is becoming more digital. Building digital solutions is getting increasingly urgent for companies to allow them to operate more efficiently internally, and to improve outreach to customers. Typically they build a progressively convoluted number of technologies, and then bandage the gaps which regularly appear. Every time a new technical challenge comes up, another bandage is applied. This leads to a complex combination of cloud and on-premise applications, different user interfaces, complicated and laborious technical maintenance, and the risk that may be created by each additional bandage...
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The Gartner research organization emphasizes that readiness for change is no longer optional — it is a strategic imperative. To meet the evolving demands of building and managing platform-centric businesses, Gartner recommends adopting a Composable Business Platform approach.
Traditional monolithic, single-vendor systems have consistently failed to deliver the agility and innovation required for successful digital transfor mation. As a result, forward-thinking organizations are now embracing modular design, best-fit technologies, and architectural flexibility...
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THE CHALLENGE
As the COVID-19 pandemic emerged in 2020, the South African National Department of Health (DoH) and the National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD) lacked a comprehensive clinical surveillance and reporting platform. They needed to rapidly connect with clinical facilities and understand what was happening in terms of: ...
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